Watching Ashes live in England:
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David Hopps writes in the Guardian on the pleasures of watching Ashes from midnight to morning. Here is one juicy bit on reinvigorating oneself with a ‘power walk’ during the tea break.
4.30am: As part of the pre-Test hype, Sky TV paraded its own Ashes medical adviser, who suggested that the tea interval was the time to take a power walk to keep energy levels high. Is he kidding? The rain is throwing down. Anyway, you can’t power-walk around a village at this time of night. If you are under 30, someone will call the police, and if you’re any older you will be heralded as the local eccentric. Or, even worse, you could stride around the first corner and be met by a group of power-walkers chatting about the cricket. “Just getting a breather - what’s got into that Harmison?”
Laughing Politics:
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If you are tired of all the punditry on Democracy at work in America circa 2006, here is an entertaining musical: Greatest Hits of Election 2006 - an animated cartoon by Walter Handelsman. I assure you. You will not hear about America’s yearning for centrism, the victory of pragmatism over ideological extremes, so on and so forth. Enjoy.
Also this roundup of recent political cartoons by Bob Geiger will make you laugh. Or not.
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